Gezicht op de Binnen-Amstel richting de Munttoren before 1907

This photograph, 'Gezicht op de Binnen-Amstel richting de Munttoren’ was taken by Andries Jager. It's a landscape format with a sepia tone. Looking at this, I imagine Jager, back then, carefully composing the shot, maybe thinking about the light and how it hits the water, reflecting back onto those old buildings. You can almost feel the stillness of the water, except where the boats are gently bobbing. The sepia flattens everything, of course, and the eye is drawn to the tower—the Munttoren. I wonder if Jager ever thought about how this image would last, how we’d be looking back at his Amsterdam so many years later. It's a kind of quiet conversation across time, isn't it? Each of us adding our own layer of seeing.